D'Arcy named on Leinster bench

Gordon D'Arcy may well make his Leinster season debut on Sunday when coach Declan Kidney named him as the last replacement for the game against Edinburgh at Donnybrook.

This comes three days after D'Arcy was shortlisted for the IRB board Player of the Year, alongside such luminaries as France's Francis Serge Betsen, South Africa's Marius Joubert and Schalke Burger and Australia's Matt Giteau.